Movies like Not as a Stranger

20 movies like Not as a Stranger, ordered by similarity : Carol(2015), Woodpeckers(2017), The Cakemaker(2017), Cloud 9(2008), Scarred Hearts(2016), Fool for Love(1985), A Lesson in Love(1954), Cruise(2018), Waterloo Road(1945), Rafiki(2018), Giant Little Ones(2018), Breaking the Waves(1996) ...

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Not as a Stranger

An intern (Robert Mitchum) marries a nurse (Olivia de Havilland) who can pay the bills on his way up as a doctor.

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star 7.2/10
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Carol

An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.

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Woodpeckers

Incarcerated in the Dominican Republic, an inmate uses sign language to communicate with his imprisoned girlfriend at an adjacent institution.

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The Cakemaker

A German pastry maker travels to Jerusalem in search of the wife and son of his dead lover.

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star 6.6/10
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Cloud 9

A romantic drama about a woman who enters into an affair after 30 years of marriage.

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Scarred Hearts

Emanuel is committed to a sanatorium for treatment of his bone tuberculosis. Little by little, as Emanuel gets accustomed to the limitations of his new life, he discovers that inside the sanatorium there is still a life to be lived to the fullest.

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star 6.1/10
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Fool for Love

May is waiting for her boyfriend in a run-down American motel, when an old flame turns up and threatens to undermine her efforts and drag her back into the life that she was running away from. The situation soon turns complicated.

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A Lesson in Love

When a doctor has a summer affair with a young woman, his wife decides to return to her former lover.

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star 5.4/10
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Cruise

Set in the 1980s, a young Italian-American from the "wrong side of the tracks" falls for a Jewish girl from Long Island.

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Waterloo Road

A drama set during World War II. A tale of adultery and desertion.

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star 6.7/10
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Rafiki

"Good Kenyan girls become good Kenyan wives," but Kena and Ziki long for something more. When love blossoms between them, the two girls will be forced to choose between happiness and safety.

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star 7.2/10
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Giant Little Ones

Two popular teen boys, best friends since childhood, discover their lives, families, and girlfriends dramatically upended after an unexpected incident occurs on the night of a 17th birthday party.

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star 7.8/10
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Breaking the Waves

Oilman Jan is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when Jan urges her to have sex with another.

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star 6.9/10
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Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot

On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing hilarious, often controversial cartoons, which bring him a new lease on life.

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star 6.9/10
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Asako I & II

Asako lives in Osaka. She falls in love with Baku, a free-spirit. One day, Baku suddenly disappears. Two years later, Asako now lives in Tokyo and meets Ryohei. He looks just like Baku, but has a completely different personality.

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star 6.9/10
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Husband Material

A love triangle between a spirited young woman, her outgoing boyfriend and a fiance who's husband material.

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star 7.1/10
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Tehran Taboo

In their desperate search for freedom and happiness, four young people from Tehran, Iran are forced to break the taboos of a restrictive, islamic society.

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star 8.0/10
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The Mother and the Whore

The chauvinist Alexandre balances relationships with several women, including the maternal Marie and the sexually liberated Veronika, in the post-1968 intellectual scene of Paris.

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star 6.4/10
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Having You

Jack has finally managed to propose to his girlfriend when his life is turned upside down by the arrival of an old one-night stand that introduces him to his seven year old son.

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star 6.3/10
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The Seventh Sin

In post-WWII Hong Kong, unhappily married Carol has an affair with a married man. Her husband discovers it and presents her with a choice: travel with him to a remote mainland village or face the scandal of a very public divorce.

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star 7.5/10
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Frantz

In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious Frenchman who visits the fiancé's grave to lay flowers.

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